Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
In [1] S. Kobayashi showed that the connected components of the set of zeros of a Killing vector field on a Riemannian manifold (Mn,g) are totally geodesic submanifolds of (Mn,g) of even codimension including the case of isolated singular points. The purpose of this short note is to give a simple proof of the corresponding result for conformal vector fields on compact Riemannian manifolds. In particular we prove the following